Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-19
NEBRASKA.

hAS "a
DRAFTED water power has arrived.
The musical convention held at Lincoln 10
denominsted an verxhslming success.
The Strengthening Of hogs at the packing
houses OF Plsttsmouth commenced Saturday.
The Union Pacific stock yards at Grand
Island prove a great convenience to shippers.
The musical convention at Lincoln closed
Friday night with a concert at ct. Psuls
church.
The report OF the superintendent o. schools
Of Omaha shows q total enrolment during
the last month of 1900.
The proceeds OF the fair for the benefit OF
st. Mary's hospital at Columbus were 500. It
wss q three days benefit.
Herbert Vandevert, a clerk at Fremont.
while cleaning q pair Of gloves with b%enzlne,
was quite severely bu ned.
The Knights OF Pythias organized the Long.
fellow lodge at Hooper, Wednesday night,
with thirty charter members.
1t is amour ced that all the arrangements
have been perfected for the erection OF a $780,
900 opera house at Lincoln.
The store Of z. d. Everett, o: Lyons, was
burelarized Tuesday night. Goods to, the
amount Of about $500 were stolen.
In Blue Springs the other night the police
rounded up thirteen grown up men who were
out on a Hallow eve expedition.
TIE following Nebraska pensions were
granted Friday: Original: Edward II. Nor.
ton, Decatur; Sidney Mile, Woodlake.
Dr.. j. W. Mitchell, Of Superior, has been
appointed by Commissioner Black a member
Of the board OF pension examiners for the dis
trict.
Williams d Stephenson's harm was burned
Monday night at Omaha. Joseph Lawn, who
slept In the barn, was burned to death.
s. W. Powers, a prominent citizen OF Kear-
ney, was killed last week in q railroad wreck
on the ST. Paul and Manitoba road west OF 81.
Paul.
John Price, q well known farmer near York,
has absconded after beating the business men
Of the place out Of $50, 900 In debts and forged
paper.
The slaughter house of Kroeyer Bros, at
Hooker, caught fire and was burned TO the
ground, causing q loss Of about t200. No n
surance.
Dalk, the Swede, who was shot q week or go
ago, in Otis precinct, near Aurora, was taken
70 the poor house Sunday. His little girl &C.
compaDied him.
MIR. Davidson, who lie buying the Missouri
Pacific rieht-of-way through the county, states
that the Missouri Pacific trains viii be into
Hastings Dec. l.
S~hellenberger 4 Son, agricultural snd Inn
plement dealers of Beatrice, made an assign
ment. Their liabilities are "!simed to be S.
600, while the assets Of the firm are about
e. 600.
One more important concern has been sc.
cured for Seward. 1t ia the transfer and gen.
eral western Office OF the Goodhue Wine En-
CINE company. All goods sold in the west
viii be shipped to Seward In car load lots and
then sent TO the various dealers throughout
the country.
Thursday evening about s O'Clock as Fred
Ratcliff OF Central City was going across the
rail- Dad track to his home, two men sprangu up
and advancing on him with q revolver, ordered
him to throw up his hands. Concluding that
discretion was the better part OF valor, he
promptly obeyed, and the foot pads inmedi-
ately proceeded to Ego through him. For
~tunately he had nothing on him except a
watch worth about Is, Of which the tourists
relieved him..
The prisoners in the county Jail at Omaha
were made happy Friday upon being invited
to sit down to a sum ptuous dinner or roast
chicken, pie and other delicacies not usually
found upon the bill OF fare Of that institution.
The spread was furnished by the popular Joe
Miller, who reigns supreme at the hastile, and
1t was unanimously resolved that a vote OF
thanks be rendered him for his kindness In
providing such an acceptable change OF diet.
Tuesday evening 8. r. Rhodes, g compost.
tor ia the Hastings Democrat office, received
q box through the mail, and having heard so
much about dynamite bombs, anarchists, etc,
he hes tattd q short time before opening 1t.
He could not recall a person OF whom he had
An enemy that would want to take bis life, 80
he concluded to open 1t, and WAS greatly and
pleasantly surprised to find q very handsome
bouquet from his best girl.
The new bridge across the Missouri. river At
Nebraska City, will be LIPS feet long, and
about sixty feet above high water mark.
There will be three piers and one abutment.
1t will comprise three spans, two upper truss
and one under truss. Two OF the spans are
AGO feet In length and one 325 feet. The
abutment Is on the west side Of the river,
commencing right at the loot OF the blur.
The bridge will be steel. II possible, the en-.
gineers intend having the structure com.
pleted by June /, but trains may not be cross
ing much before October l, next.
Wednesday evening about Q O'Clock a are
alarm was given at Fremont, and the fire
companies turned out In the usual short or
der. The sea. OF the disturbance WAS at the
residence Mrs. e. Fl. Rogers on Military ave-
nue.. The flames were suppressed before the
companies arrived. A lamp citing on the Ia
bic In the kitchen was accidentally knocked
of cato the hoor. The flames from the oil
caught Ia some clothing hanging on a rack
GEAR by.
The story comes from Nebraska City that
the Jail which Quinn Bohannan occupied 50
long before his rs, pc is kept just the same
as he left It, even to the straw.stuffed dummy
be left covered with q blanket. The hole
chopped through the ieOr by the mob when
they took shellenberger on has been fixed
and the tree to which they hung him still
stands, but the dead bark has all been peeled
swsv hv partias who wanted relics of the